The Anti-Jap Laundry League was an organization founded in 1908 in the United States by the Laundry Workers' and Laundry Drivers' Unions.[ clarification needed] The league, based in San Francisco, attempted to financially harm laundries run by Japanese Americans using four different tactics: picketing laundries, following customers back to their homes and intimidating them, preventing the laundries from purchasing equipment, and threatening public officials who refused to punish the laundries. They successfully ruined many Japanese laundries in this way. [1] In the laundries run by league members, posters such as the following were hung on the walls: [2]
California Attorney General Ulysses S. Webb put great effort into enforcing laws against Asian ownership of property.
The Anti-Jap Laundry League was an organization founded in 1908 in the United States by the Laundry Workers' and Laundry Drivers' Unions.[ clarification needed] The league, based in San Francisco, attempted to financially harm laundries run by Japanese Americans using four different tactics: picketing laundries, following customers back to their homes and intimidating them, preventing the laundries from purchasing equipment, and threatening public officials who refused to punish the laundries. They successfully ruined many Japanese laundries in this way. [1] In the laundries run by league members, posters such as the following were hung on the walls: [2]
California Attorney General Ulysses S. Webb put great effort into enforcing laws against Asian ownership of property.